Song: Keep the Searchlight Shining

For the 50th Anniversary of Searchlight Magazine, we collaborated with our go-to singer, Stella, to commemorate the occasion. Whilst its first public performance wasn’t exactly a success (we forgot to bring Stella with us. Seriously. This is not a joke), the song’s an absolute belter.

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Keep the Searchlight Shining

Music credit: Ivor Novello

It was May 1964And the country was distractedBy revving bikes and beardy types; andHow mainstream press reactedBut a current bubbled underOf ‘wogs’ V. pure whitey bloodBy the time Enoch made his speechWe’d spent four years exposing crudKeep the Searchlight Shining50 years headliningA hunt revealing the far rightIn your home townAngry hatred’s creepingBut our beams are sweepingWe seek world news and bring you proofPens wear bullies downNow five decades of exposingHas put us to the testBut we gave heartfelt labourHonour made us do no lessFor no gallant Son of FreedomCould bend to the far rightAnd a noble heart must answerWhen the world needs a Searchlight

Keep the Searchlight Shining50 years headliningA hunt revealing the far rightIn your home townAngry hatred’s creepingBut our beams are sweepingWe seek world news and bring you proofPens wear bullies down

Keep the Searchlight Shining50 years headliningA hunt revealing the far rightIn your home townAngry hatreds creepingBut our beams are sweepingWe seek world news and bring you proofPens wear bullies down